Thursday, April 17, 2014

Even more evidence of cronyism, corruption and coercion in Bradstad administration

Top staffers of Gov. Terry Branstad pressured the state's employment
board to hire a longtime friend of the administration as an
administrative law judge in an attempt to stack the deck against public
employee complaints, the chairman of the board told The Des Moines
Register this week. Iowa Public Employment Relations Board
Chairman Jim Riordan said Branstad's former chief of staff, Jeff
Boeyink, and current staff attorney, Brenna Findley, threatened to cut
the office's budget if its three board members failed to comply with
their demand. To keep the office on stable financial ground, the
board hired Robert D. Wilson, a former Polk County district judge,
Riordan said. Riordan's statements marked the second time in less
than a month that the Branstad administration has been accused of
interfering with the workings of the state's judiciary system...

Maynard (Bob "Gilligan's Island" Denver) slyly flashes a nipple to the CBS eye while trying to talk his best buddy Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hick­man) into taking off all his clothes. Whoever said 1950s television was a vast waste­land obviously didn't know where to look.